Videogames! Most videogames contain a lot of detail that isn't strictly plot-relevant and let you personally explore the setting, meaning you can get to know the world very intimately.

I can see the appeal of that. (It makes me think of how I got to like superhero comics and the huge sprawling canon where a lot of separate stories intersect and sometimes you get things like that guy who offered Spider-Man free hot dogs for life after Spider-Man saved his life, and now he's halfway regretting it because Spider-Man shows up for a hot dog nearly every day and he's chatty.) If not for my extreme lack of aptitude for video games, I could get into some of them.

Pierce of Community has a few good lines; 'If it's so serious, why don't they call it meningitis?' really got me.

Yeah, he's an asshole, but he's an asshole with some funny moments. And when it was Pierce versus his father, I was more sympathetic, because "Guy who was raised to be a complete asshole stumbling his way towards becoming less of an asshole, even if he doesn't know how to be genuinely not an asshole" is something I like.